User Tools

Site Tools


cynics:meleager_of_gadara

Meleager of Gadara

Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 4.157b

<blockquote>Glancing with wonder at the viands before them, they began to laugh. And Nicion said: “Does no one of you, beard-gathering sirs, eat fish? Or is it like what your ancestor Meleager of Gadara, in the work entitled The Graces, said of Homer: being a Syrian by birth, he has represented the Achaeans as abstaining from fish according to the practice of his own country, although there is great abundance of them in the region of the Hellespont? Or have you read only that work of his which contains the comparison of pease-porridge with lentil soup? For I see that the quantity of lentil-soup prepared at your dinner is great, and as I gaze upon it I should advise you, in the words of the Socratic Antisthenes, to 'deliver yourselves from life,' if you must feed on such stuff.”
Source</blockquote>

cynics/meleager_of_gadara.txt · Last modified: 2014/01/14 23:20 by 127.0.0.1

Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license: Public Domain
Public Domain Donate Powered by PHP Valid HTML5 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki